zea_64
@zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone
she/they
- Comment on Penguins ❤️ 1 day ago:
I’m 20% better than giraffes 😎
- Comment on Equality 4 days ago:
C doesn’t even guarantee a == a
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 6 days ago:
It was really weird the first time I saw the liquid pooling in 100 tiny bubbles before surface tension merged them
- Comment on Help me out here 1 week ago:
Fat Bastard?
- Comment on non vegan pizza time 1 week ago:
If it’s nutritionally, flavorfully, and textured identically, why do you care?
- Comment on Glad I was too dumb to finish college... 4 weeks ago:
Effects on the natural world can be scienced.
- Comment on same goes for the even-odd binary, of which non-integers are not a part 5 weeks ago:
👋
- Comment on you install arch once and suddenly you're a femboy :3 5 weeks ago:
There seems to be large overlap between queerness and nerdiness. Although that just replaces one question for another, and idk why it is what it is.
- Comment on A conversation with my wife 1 month ago:
I already have less to work with than average 😭
- Comment on A conversation with my wife 1 month ago:
Neither of my parents are or were religious, yet I have a scar there (not hyperbole, actually hurts if touched too much). I don’t know if foreskin is useful for anything in GRS, but if it is I’m gonna be pissed I don’t have any.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 2 months ago:
I just said “I’m on Lexapro”
- Comment on If you want communism, you can start a commune 2 months ago:
Plenty of people die daily in first-world countries that could have been saved in a different economic system, because saving them was not profitable. Even more die elsewhere, where the first-world countries have outsourced a lot of their miserable jobs. Cobalt mines in the Congo, used for certain lithium-ion battery chemistries for instance, have terrible working conditions and child labor. Another example is climate change: how many people will die this century from famine and water scarcity caused by a changing climate? Externalities don’t factor into capitalist profits, and the governments are usually under their control so they’ll just pay lip service to action or very slowly and reluctantly enact regulation.
Revolution is a one-time cost. It’ll suck, I hate it, but it seems to me like it’d be worth it in the long run. I’d also love to avoid revolution entirely, but that threatens capitalist profit so I really doubt governments (again, controlled by the interests of capitalists) will make it easy.
Another thing worth noting: revolution doesn’t mean financial markets have to immediately change. Companies can still act capitalist (at the start), they’d just be controlled by the workers now. Once workers own everything, and government infrastructure is set up to facilitate the sort of democracy and management communism would need, we can phase in changes. With control of the government, there could also be subsidies set up to help stabilize the market during transitions; for the US at least, there’s about ~$700 billion/year for the military as it stands, that seems like a sizeable fund to pinch from for such subsidies in the short term.
- Comment on If you want communism, you can start a commune 2 months ago:
Seizing the means of production and putting it in the ownership of the workers will, realistically, require revolution or damn well near it. But, workers owning their work doesn’t require an end to our current markets. We can keep them mostly as is, besides, of course, the rich and powerful people who currently do no work and just “own” things. From that state, it can be a more gradual transition.
- Comment on If you want communism, you can start a commune 2 months ago:
I’m not well read enough on communism to know smart people’s ideas there, but the way I see it it gives room for any system of experimentation the people want. Maybe you pitch your idea to the government instead of investors, and they give you resources. In a system with small markets, you can start in the market and, if it does well, get upgraded to governments operated. “Communism” doesn’t mean one thing, and there’s a lot of room for variety, do we could we decide to try one of these systems but then switch to another, allowing better adaptation than capitalism where profit is the only way.
I take hormone therapy for transgender people (hi, I am transgender people) and I’m already at the whims of the government. Perhaps a communist government might not make it free for me if the political climate said no, but as long as it’s not outright banned and there is some alternate system to the government’s plan, I could still get it. That’s not far off where I am now, actually (Florida). Perhaps we could write this sort of going around other government to some degree (perhaps by small market) into the constitution as a layer of safety.
I’ve been saying “let the government do [x]” a lot, and if you’re from a neoliberal country you might have heard “excessive bureaucracy”, but that’s a result of capitalism ruining your government. Government doesn’t have to be bad, nor even a monolith. Most forms of communism I’ve heard of have multiple levels, from committees covering broad country-level goals to committees on local-level details, each level getting a fair degree of autonomy. But also, you can talk to or even get on the committees! They’re made of citizens like you, and with no corporate interests or lobbying!
- Comment on If you want communism, you can start a commune 2 months ago:
Ah, see, that’s a different question than how you get funding under communism under capitalism.
- Comment on If you want communism, you can start a commune 2 months ago:
Did you just suggest selling the means of production to the bourgeoisie to fund a commune? I… what?
- Comment on its not like you went anywhere 2 months ago:
Not a weird enough projection, try harder
- Comment on What a life to leave your children 2 months ago:
consider an orchiectomy, no balls
- Comment on Cocoon 2 months ago:
Have you tried not existing? Solves all your problems!
- Comment on Giving someone oral is the most intimate thing you can do for someone. (IMO) 2 months ago:
Suck her dick as well!
- Comment on Guess I'll die 2 months ago:
Fallout is highly variable, you absolutely can live. The blast wave is a bigger threat.
- Comment on Complete this sentence 2 months ago:
nce.
- Comment on I like trains! 2 months ago:
Boots with the fur